Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : : the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia / / by Edwin de Jong.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde ; v. 284
• Author: Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 284.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Edwin de Jong -- Crisis and Ceremonies: An Intriguing Paradox / Edwin de Jong -- Torajan Livelihoods: The Cultural Dynamics of Economic Life / Edwin de Jong -- The Larger Torajan World: Migrant Networks and Organizations / Edwin de Jong -- The Torajan Homeland / Edwin de Jong -- Contesting Political Power / Edwin de Jong -- Social Distinction and Ritual Performance / Edwin de Jong -- Income and Expenditure Patterns in a Changing Economy / Edwin de Jong -- Torajan Livelihood Styles / Edwin de Jong -- Living with the Dead / Edwin de Jong -- Appendix 1. Cluster Analysis / Edwin de Jong -- Appendix 2. Variables in the Cluster analysis for Palipu’ and Kondo’ / Edwin de Jong -- Appendix 3. Clusters of Households after Relocation Procedure / Edwin de Jong -- Appendix 4. Cluster Analysis of Palipu’ and Kondo’ / Edwin de Jong -- Glossary of Indonesian and Dutch Terms / Edwin de Jong -- Bibliography / Edwin de Jong -- Index / Edwin de Jong.